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DAY 1

WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL 2021, 2.30PM START (AEST)

Australian Eastern Standard Time (Melbourne, Victoria, UTC +10)

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PLENARY 1: STARTS AT 2.30PM

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WELCOME

DR LOIS PEELER AM Traditional Welcome to Country

HOLGER KNAACK Welcome from the Rotary International President

PRESIDENT MARION MACLEOD Welcome from Rotary Melbourne

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TILMAN RUFF AO Founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the first Australian-born Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

SETSUKO THURLOW Nuclear disarmament campaigner who survived the bombing of Hiroshima

DR EMMA LESLIE AM Executive Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Cambodia

 

FACILITATOR LED Q&A DISCUSSIONS

PLENARY 1: ENDS AT 4.05PM

   

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: STARTS AT 4.15PM

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After the presentations, there will be a panel discussion with audience Q&A.

WORKSHOP 1: 4.15PM

Indigenous Reconciliation

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Workshop Moderator

Robert McGuirk

Speakers

Ian Hamm Chair Board of Directors First Nations Foundation

Nerita Waight Chief Executive Officer Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

Dr Neville White Emeritus Scholar, La Trobe University

WORKSHOP 2: 4.15PM

Family Violence

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Workshop Moderator

Superintendent Andrew Miles Family Violence Command, Victoria Police

Speakers

Associate Professor Troy McEwan Swinburne Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science

Assistant Commissioner Lauren Callaway Family Violence Command, Victoria Police

Dorothy Gilmour Rotary Melbourne & Rotary Safe Families

WORKSHOP 3: 4.15PM

Economics and Peace

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Workshop Moderator

Charlie Allen Director of Partnerships Institute for Economics and Peace

Speakers

Steve Killelea AM Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace

Michael Hitz Director, Institute for Economics and Peace

Tony Stuart CEO, UNICEF Australia

WORKSHOP SESSION: ENDS AT 5.15PM

   

PLENARY 2: STARTS AT 5.20PM

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Launch of the Peacebuilding Initiative from the University of Melbourne

PROFESSOR DUNCAN MASKELL Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne

PROFESSOR JOHN LANGMORE AM Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Government Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

DR TANIA MILETIC Assistant Director, Initiative for Peacebuilding / Centre for Peacebuilding Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne

MS KATHY KLUGMAN Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

   

PLENARY 2 & DAY 1 ENDS AT 5.30PM

   

DAY 2

Thursday, 22 APRIL 2021, 9.30AM START (AEST)

Australian Eastern Standard Time (Melbourne, Victoria, UTC +10)

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PLENARY 3: STARTS AT 9.30AM

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RAVI RAVINDRAN Welcome by Rotary Foundation Chair of Trustees

JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA AC Nobel Laureate, Former President of East Timor

NATASCHA HRYCKOW Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & Geneva Centre for Security Policy Global Fellow.

FACILITATOR LED Q&A DISCUSSIONS

PLENARY 3: ENDS AT 10.50AM

   

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: STARTS AT 11.00AM

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After the presentations, there will be a panel discussion with audience Q&A.

WORKSHOP 4: 11.00AM

Humanity & Humanitarian Aid

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Workshop Moderator

Kirsten Sayers RedR Australia CEO

Speakers

Barnaby Caddy Australia Assists Deployee RedR Australia

Natascha Hrychow Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & GCSP Global Fellow

Anggie Burchill Australia Assist Deployee RedR Australia, Rotary Peace Fellow

WORKSHOP 5: 11.00AM

Business & Human Rights

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Workshop Moderator

Dr Jonathan Kolieb Peace and Conflict Lead Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University

Speakers

Kylie Porter Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network Australia

Keren Adams Legal Director Human Rights Law Centre

Associate Professor Shelley Marshall Director, RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre

Phoebe Wynn-Pope Head of Business & Human Rights, Corrs Chambers Westgarth

WORKSHOP 6: 11.00AM

What You Can Do For Peace

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Workshop Facilitators

Dr Tania Miletic Assistant Director, Centre for Peacebuilding, Melbourne University

Jessica Trijsburg Migration & Community Resilience Researcher

Speakers

Walter Gyger Retired Ambassador Main Representative of Rotary International to the UN in Geneva

Sibylle Rupprecht CEO, Lecturer, Trainer & Coach

Natalia Sineaeva-Pankowska Holocaust & genocide scholar, Educator, Rotary Peace Fellow

Assoc Prof Morgan Briggs Director Rotary Program, Indigenous Engagement, University of Queensland

WORKSHOP SESSION: ENDS AT 12.00 NOON

   

PLENARY 4: STARTS AT 12.05PM

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Facilitated Panel Discussion

“How do we reverse the Doomsday Clock?”

ALI MOORE Panel Facilitator Journalist and Broadcaster

IAN RISELEY OAM Past President of Rotary International

DR EMMA LESLIE AM Executive Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Cambodia

PROF THE HON GARETH EVANS AC Former politician & Academic

STEPHEN KILLELEA AM Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace

   

12.50PM: Final comments & call to action

DAY 2 ENDS AT 1.00PM

   

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